²¹ Then Ruth the Moabite^(A) said, “He even said to me, ‘Stay with my workers until they finish harvesting all my grain.’”

²² Naomi said to Ruth her daughter-in-law, “It will be good for you, my daughter, to go with the women who work for him, because in someone else’s field you might be harmed.”

⁷ She said, ‘Please let me glean and gather among the sheaves^(A) behind the harvesters.’ She came into the field and has remained here from morning till now, except for a short rest^(B) in the shelter.”

⁸ So Boaz said to Ruth, “My daughter, listen to me. Don’t go and glean in another field and don’t go away from here. Stay here with the women who work for me.